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Drown

Title: Drown / Junot Díaz.
Author: Díaz, Junot, 1968-
Publication: New York : Riverhead Books, 1997, ©1996.

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Description

208 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican Republic-and other front-line reports on the ambivalent promise of the American dream-by an eloquent and original writer who describes more than physical dislocation in conveying the price that is paid forleaving culture and homeland behind."--San Francisco Chronicle. Junot Diaz's stories are as vibrant, tough, unexotic, and beautiful as their settings-Santa Domingo, Dominican. Neuva York, the immigrant neighborhoods of industrial New Jersey with their gorgeously polluted skyscapes. Places and voices new to our literature yet classically American: coming-of-age stories full of wild humor, intelligence, rage, and piercing tenderness. And this is just the beginning. Diaz is going to be a giant of American prose.-Francisco Goldman. Ever since Diaz began publishing short stories in venues as prestigious as The New Yorker, he has been touted as a major new talent, and his debut collection affirms this claim. Born and raised in Santo Domingo, Diaz uses the contrast between his island homeland and life in New York City and New Jersey as a fulcrum for his trenchant tales. His young male narrators are teetering into precarious adolescence. For these sons of harsh or absent fathers and bone-weary, stoic mothers, life is an unrelenting hustle. In Santo Domingo, they are sent to stay with relatives when the food runs out at home; in the States, shoplifting and drugdealing supply material necessities and a bit ofa thrill in an otherwise exhausting and frustrating existence. There is little affection, sex is destructive, conversation strained, and even the brilliant beauty of a sunset is tainted, its colors the product of pollutants. Keep your eye onDiaz; his first novel is on the way.
A collection of eleven stories by a young writer evoke his hard-fought youth in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the bleak urban landscapes of New Jersey, combining a journalist's dispassionate eye with an ear for poetry.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Short stories, American.
Short stories.
Fiction.

Contents

Ysrael -- Fiesta, 1980 -- Aurora -- Aguantando -- Drown -- Boyfriend -- Edison, New Jersey -- How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie -- No face -- Negocios.

Call Number

Sc D 08-45

ISBN

9781573226066
1573226068

OCLC

37232271

Author

Díaz, Junot, 1968-

Title

Drown / Junot Díaz.

Imprint

Edition

1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Dominican Americans

Americans

Men

LCCN

96018362

Research Call Number

Sc D 08-45

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